Hello, I'm Ian, and I live at the Darvell community in East Sussex, UK. I work most days, and occasionally read books. I have a strong aversion to most professional sports. Ditto boiled eggs. I am married to Olivia, and we have four sons.
I’m mulling over a discussion I had recently with a young atheist, a chap who was raised Christian but has come to the viewpoint that the whole thing is a story, a fable, rubbish. He’s too clever by half to fall for that sort of thing and I didn’t...
I voted in the 2016 referendum and no, I’m not telling you which way I voted. We may no longer have such a thing as reasoned debate in our society, but I’m going to hang on to the idea of a secret ballot with my teeth if necessary. But what I really...
You will most definitely not experience any kind of retreat on a stay at the Bruderhof. There will not be hushed voices in the breakfast room with sunlight filtering through the hanging geraniums, people padding over the carpet in stocking feet. No...
Our family made a clay oven last Sunday. I’m not going to give a blow by blow, death-by-exposition account of how we did it, or try to convince you to do this as a bonding experience with your family because, like all of our “family projects” most...
